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Join Dr. Ryan Meili, Canadian physician and former leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, and André Picard, health reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail and two-time winner of the Columns category at Canada's National Newspaper Awards, as they discuss Ryan's new book, A Healthy Future: Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis.

A Healthy Future is a gripping account of the COVID-19 experience in Saskatchewan goes beyond pandemic memoir to draw lessons we can use to create a healthier future.

Filled with moving stories of how COVID changed people’s lives, Ryan Meili’s deeply humane account of the pandemic draws on his unique experience as a doctor and as the leader of Saskatchewan’s official opposition during the first two years of the outbreak. A Healthy Future reveals how the pandemic exposed and made worse problems in health care, elder care, education, and social supports – and details how we can do better.

Written with passion and commitment, this book offers a firsthand look at how the pandemic laid bare the shortcomings of Saskatchewan’s – and Canada’s – public health response, with tragic results. It also provides an inspiring vision of what Canadians can learn from the pandemic to create a healthier and more equitable future.

With its eye-opening descriptions of both the political and health care response to the virus, this book will appeal to those seeking to understand what really happened during the pandemic, as well as policy makers, health care professionals, and researchers and students studying the social determinants of health.